From: Petite Abeille <petite.abeille@...>
Date: 2008-05-18T16:48:35+09:00
Subject: Re: Dude?


On May 17, 2008, at 10:29 PM, Robert Dober wrote:

>>> I will put it this way, you should not call somebody dude unless you
>>> have herded sheep with her ;). (Comes from a French idiomatic  
>>> sentence).
>>
>> Cows, not sheep, i.e.:
>>
>> "Avoir gardé les vaches ensemble" or not...
>
> You are the native speaker, but I know that my wife says "gardé les
> chevres ensemble", she is from Britany, maybe local differences?

Goats in Britany? Very unlikely. Something must have been lost in  
translation then :)

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